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Impacts of deforestation on Amazonian river ecosystems could be far-reaching

2014-12-18 21:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Vast areas of the Amazon forest are being destroyed for agricultural uses, mainly industrial-scale soybean crops, and turned into pasture land for livestock. The riparian forests surrounding streams have not been exempt from this trend. And though headwater streams in the Brazilian Amazon are valuable aquatic ecosystems, little research has been done to determine how deforestation is impacting the streams environmental integrity and ability to function as natural habitats. That is, until now....

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Amazonian peatlands store mega carbon

2014-12-18 00:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Peatlands in the Peruvian Amazon store ten times the amount of carbon as undisturbed rainforest in adjacent areas, making them critical in the battle to fight climate change, finds a new study published in Environmental Research Letters. While peatlands in Southeast Asia - namely Sumatra, Borneo, and New Guinea - are best known to tropical ecologists, they are also found in other parts of the world, including the Amazon. The new research looks specifically at an area known as the Pastaza-Maraón...

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14 Million Soccer Fields Of Amazonian Rain Forest Saved From Clearcutting

2014-06-26 11:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

CleanTechnica: A research study published in Science this month (June 2014) found that a 70% decline in Brazilian Amazon deforestation could be an indication that effective management of the expanding agricultural sector is possible. One of the leading organizations behind the study was the Earth Innovation Institute in San Francisco, CA. (There were seven others that contributed to the research as well, like Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Bairro Fátima.) Some key points from the study paper: 86,000...

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